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Calling all science writers

The Canada Foundation for Innovation is now accepting applications for the CFI Emerging Science Journalists Award. Winners receive funding for an in-depth story they've pitched.
How to be a journalist in 2011

One young journalist realizes that though jobs may be scarce, opportunities are everywhere.
Briarpatch launches writing contest

Briarpatch is pleased to announce our first annual creative writing contest! We are now accepting submissions of original, unpublished writing in the categories of short fiction and creative non-fiction (memoir, personal essay,…
Call for submissions: Speak Magazine

It's that time of year again: Speak magazine's annual call for submissions. This year Speak is being headed by the University of Regina's jhr Chapter, with support from faculty and students from…
U of T launches new post-graduate journalism program

Applications are now being accepted for the latest addition to the list of post-graduate journalism programs in Canada. The University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs says this new program will…
The Rights Check-up: first edition podcast

A group of Concordia journalism students delve into the role social media and journalism can play in preventing mass atrocities and genocide in the premier edition of this Journalists for Human Rights…
A new fellowship for foreign reporting

Applications are now being accepted for the inaugural R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship which will provide major funding to a journalist each year who wants to pursue a major story overseas.
Ryerson students get a special lesson in investigative reporting

Six Ryerson journalism students contributed to the research and reporting of a three-part series published recently in the Toronto Star which detailed troubling practices in some Ontario high schools. The first story,…
Five questions for Duncan McCue

University of British Columbia graduate school j-prof Duncan McCue is spearheading the school's brand new, one-of-a-kind journalism course, "Reporting in Indigenous Communities". Developed in partnership with several B.C. aboriginal communities, the course…
Just another schmuck with a camera

To celebrate our new partnership with the Langara Journalism Review, an all-journalism publication from B.C.-based Langara College's j-program, we're featuring the 2011 cover story on photojournalist Andy Clark. Clark may say he's…